As I type this, I keep telling myself, perhaps this shamefully would be the last thing Linus Torvalds himself would do – people wasting time writing about his talk, leave alone his creation.
If you missed the news, ‘post truth’ has been chosen as the Word of the Year 2016 by Oxford Dictionaries. post truth – is an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’.